Earth's Processes Quiz

Divergent plates move away from each other. What feature is most likely found at a divergent plate boundary?

• Mountain range

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Plateau

• sand bars

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Earthquakes are experienced in many areas on the planet. What is occurring that results in earthquakes

• two tectonic plates sliding past each other

• two tectonic plates pulling away from each other

• tectonic plates being weathered over time

• tectonic plates melting as they slide into the mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Molten magma rises, cools and falls in the mantle of the Earth’s interior. What type of heat transfer does this describe?

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Convection

• Absorption

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

A ______ is a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying large slabs of continental and oceanic crust.

• wedge
• plate
• chunk
• fault

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

A break in Earth's crust along which rocks move is called a ________.

• plate
• rift
• fault
• breach

What is the name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago?

• Panthalassa
• Laurasia
• Gondwanna
• Pangaea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary?

• Subduction
• Induction
• Abduction 
• Reduction

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

_____________ is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary
• Divergent boundary
• Insurgent boundary

_____________ is when two plates move toward each other.

• Convergent boundary
• Allegiant boundary
• Transform boundary
• Sliding boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A _____________ is when two plates move past each other in opposite directions.

• emergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• convergent boundary